Inspector calls Quotes

Question 1

Mr Birling

Answer 1

‘Heavy looking rather portentous man’ - Pg 1
‘For lower costs and higher prices’ - Pg 4
‘I don’t like your tone nor the way your handling this inquiry’ - Pg 33
‘I’d Give thousands - yes, thousands’ - Pg 56

Question 2

Mrs Birling

Answer 2

‘Arthur, you’re not supposed to say such thing’ - Pg 2
‘Sheila! What an expression… the things you girls pick up on these days!’ - Pg 3
‘Girls of that class.’ - Pg 30
“I think she only had herself to blame.” - Pg 43
‘He certainly didn’t make me confess.’ - Pg 60

Question 3

Inspector Goole

Answer 3

‘Pink and intimate to brighter and harder’ - Pg 1
‘You think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant things?’ - Pg 27
‘Public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges’ - Pg 41
‘Millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths’ - Pg 56
‘Fire, blood and anguish’ - Pg 56

Question 4

Eric Birling

Answer 4

‘Not quite at ease, half shy, half assertive’ - Pg 2
‘Why shouldn’t they try for higher wages’ - Pg 16
‘You killed them both- damn you, damn you’ - Pg 55
‘The girl’s dead and we all helped to kill her’ - Pg 65

Question 5

Sheila Birling

Answer 5

‘Very pleased with life and rather excited’ - Pg 1
‘Mummy and daddy’ - Pg 6
‘But these girls aren’t cheap labour- they’re people.’ - Pg 19
‘I know I’m to blame - but I’m desperately sorry’ - Pg 29
‘It frightens me the way you talk’ - Pg 71

Question 6

Gerald Croft

Answer 6

‘An attractive chap about thirty, rather too manly to be a dandy but very much the easy well-bred young man-about town.’ - Pg2
‘You couldn’t have done anything else’ - Pg 15
‘It’s bound to be unpleasant and disturbing’ - Pg 27
‘I didn’t feel about her as she felt about me’ Pg 38
‘Everything’s all right now, Sheila. What about this ring’ - Pg 71

Question 7

Responsibility

Answer 7

‘All mixed up together like bees in a hive - community and all that nonsense’ - Pg 10
‘I can’t accept any responsibility’ - Pg 14
‘I know I’m to blame - but I’m desperately sorry’ - Pg 29
“I think she only had herself to blame.” - Pg 43
‘We are members of one body we are responsibility for each other’ - Pg 56
‘Fire, blood and anguish’ - Pg 56
‘He certainly didn’t make me confess.’ - Pg 60

Question 8

Age / Generational divide

Answer 8

‘But these girls aren’t cheap labour- they’re people.’ - Pg 19
‘You seem to have made a great impression on this child, Inspector’ - Pg 30
‘There’s every excuse for what both your mother and I did’ - Pg 57
‘The girl’s dead and we all helped to kill her’ - Pg 65

Question 9

Class

Answer 9

‘I was an alderman for years - and Lord Mayor two years ago’ - Pg 11
‘I don’t play golf’ - Pg 16
‘Girls of that class.’ - Pg 30
‘There’ll be a public scandal’ - Pg 57

Question 10

Gender

Answer 10

‘Hard-headed, practical man of business’ - Pg 3
‘You think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant things?’ - Pg 27
‘She looked young and fresh and charming’ - Pg 35
‘Yes, I insisted’ - Pg 53